Baling-press.



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WINFIELD S. LIVENGOOD, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR lO SMIIIIKLQSONS MFG. OO., O1" KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

BALING-PRESS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 13, 1909.

Application led July 17, 1906. Serial No. 326,566.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, WINFIELD' S. LrvnN- GOOD, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Kansas City, in the county ol" Jackson and State ofMissouri, have invented certain new and useful Im )rovements inEaling-Presses, of which the fo lowing is a speci'lication.

My invention relates to improvements in baling-presses, and relates moreparticularly to double-acting or that type of press wherein two balesare delivered, substantially, at the same time.

My object is to produce a press of large baling capacity which may beoperated at minimum expense, and with these ends in view I make it asnearly automatic throughout its action as possible.

T he invention consists in the novel construction, combination andarrangement of parts hereinafter described, pointed out in the claims,and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and in order that theinvention may be readily understood reference will now be made to saiddrawings, in which 2- Figures 1 and 2 represent a side elevation of myimproved baling-press. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the press with thedelivery ends of the baling-cases broken away. Fig. 4 is a sideelevation of the same with the pitchers, forming part ol the invention,in reverse positions to that shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a verticalsection taken en line V-V ol" Fig. 3 with the pitchers in the sameposition shown in Fig. f1. Fig. 6 is a vertical central section taken online VI-VI ol Fig. 3. Fig. 7 is a transverse section taken on lineVII-VII of Fig. 8. Fig. S is a broken horizontal section on line VIII-VIII of Fig. 6. Fig. 9 is a broken plan view of one of the baling-caseswith a tension device for regulating the discharge end thereof.

In carrying out the invention I employ a pair of baling-eascs 1 2arranged in horizontal alinenient and separated by a centrally-disposedcylinder 3 secured to the adjacent ends of the baling-cases by lugs 4 5and rods 6. The baling-cases consist oi side-plates 7, bottom plates 8,top-plates 8 and angle-irons 9.

10 and 11 designate front and rear axles, respectively, upon which aremounted wheels 12 employed in transporting the ross from place to place.Axle 10 is swive ed upon a king-bolt 13 so that the press may be readilyturned in any direction.

14 designates a pair of rearwardly diverging braces which assist insecuring the .rear axle to baling-case 2.

15 16 designate hoppers communicating, respectively, with the upperportions of baling-eases 1 2.

17 designates a partition partly separating the hoppcrs from theirrespective balingcases, and covering the top ol cylinder 3.

18 designates a lender secured to one side of the feed openings in thehoppers to prevent the hay, or other material being baled, from beingthrown beyond said feed-openings.

19 26 designate a pair of curved aprons secured to thel opposite side ofthe Feed-open.- ings and supported at their lower ends by braces 21 22,provided at their upper ends with stop-blocks 22L and secured at theirlower terminals to lugs projecting l'rom irregular-shaped castings 2/-125, provided with pockets 211L 25", respectively.

Charges of material are altern ately thrown. upwardly into the hop persby a pair of oscillatory pitchers 26 27, each of which comprise asheet-metal plate 2S, for the reception ol the material, and a U-shapedred 2E) to which said plate is secured. 'Rods 26 are pivotally mountedin brackets 30 3l secured to the adjacent sides olE the hoppers.

32 designates bars secured to rods 2E) and adapted to contact withblocks 22L and support the pitchers when the latter are in. lheirlowermost positions.

The pitchers are alternately drawn upwardly with their charges olmaterial by 1a.- bles 33, extending over sheave-wlumls f-1 341 andattached at their ends to bars 252 and the lree ends elt a pair el linkswhich are pivotally secured at their opposite ends to a rod 36 extendingtransversely through the lorward ends of a pair of coimeeting-bars 37.As it is desirable to have the pitchers remain in their lowerinostpositions as long as possible to give ample time to charge them withmaterial, cables 33 are ol sullicient length to have a certain amount ofslack when said pitchers are down, hence when the up pcrmost pitcherstarts downwardly the lowermost pitcher will remain at rest until all olthe slack in its cable is taken up. The pitchers are started downwardlyby springs 27 i* which push against bars 32.

Connecting-bars 37 are pivotally secured at their rear terminals to apair of oscillatory levers 38, fulcrumed upon studs 39, project- 42,mounted upon the outer terminals of a shaft 43, carrying another pair ofantifriction rollers 44, arranged to travel in guides 45 projecting fromthe opposite sides of balingcase 2.

46 designates a shaft extending through baling-case 1 and provided atits ends with antifriction rollers 47 arranged to travel in guides 48,projecting from the opposite sides of baling-case 1 and arranged inhorizontal alinement with guides 45.

A designates a piston comprising a rod 49 and a head 50 which latter issecured midway between the ends of the former and reciprocably arrangedin the cylinder 3. The ends of the piston-rod are connected to shafts 4346 by links 51 so that any vibratory motion which may be transmitted byrollers 44 47 to shafts 43 46 will not be imparted to the piston-rod andtend to cause the latter to operate in the stuffing-boxes of thecylinder with undue friction.

B C designate a pair of plungers arranged to traverse baling-cases 1 and2, respectively, and com arising head-blocks 52 53, mounted upon rollers54, and a pair of toggles comprising links 55 56 which latter haveextensions 57. Said extensions engage castings 24 25, as shown in Fig.6, and cause the toggles to unfold while alternately making theirforward strokes, and remain extended. until they are folded by rollers58 59 engaging pockets 24fl 25, respectively, as the toggles alternatelycomplete their backward strokes. The rollers 58 59 are mounted uponshafts 60 extending through links 56. By interposin g the togglesbetween the piston-rod and the head-blocks it is obvious that longerstrokes will be imparted to the latter, and, consequently, largerfeed-openings in the baling` cases will be obtained.

61 62 designate a pair of aprons adapted to i receive the charges ofmaterial as they are 1 alternately thrown into the hoppers hy thepitchers. The rear adjacent ends of said aprons slide upon partition 17and their forward portions are loosely secured to the respectivehead-blocks by segmental links 63, so their forward down-turned ends 6465 may perform the function of tuekers and push the material forwardlybeneath the top-plates of the baling-cases, and thus prevent thematerial from binding between said plates and the tops of thehead-blocks. The forward ends of the aprons are yieldingly held in araised position by coil-springs 66 so that when they move forward theywill bear against the top plates and prevent portions of the materialfrom lodging between their forward down-turned ends and the topplates.Springs 66 embrace the lower portions of rods 67 depending from the topsof the head-blocks and provided at their lower threaded terminals withnuts 68 whereby the vtension of thesprings may beA regulated.

69 designates a condenser reciprocably arranged in the hoppers toinitially compress 70 the charges before they are pushed downwardly intothe baling-eases. Said condenser is mounted upon rollers 70, journaledupon shafts 71, carried by brackets 31, and is prevented from tipping onsaid rollers when at the end of a `stroke by transverse `rods 72extending through the adjacent ends of theheppers and engaging theuppersurface of a pair of parallel. bars 73 forming part of the condenser. Asrod36extends through the bars 73 the vcondenser will be movedsimultaneously in reverse directions to that traveled by the plungersthrough the instrumentality of the connecting-bars 37- and levers 38,hence when plunger C is at'the end of a backward stroke the condenserwill have compressed the charge in hopper 15 preparatory to its beingforced downwardly in front of said plunger.

The admission of steam or other motive fluid to cylinder 3 is controlledby a balanced valve, not shown, slidably arranged iny a valve-case 74fixed to the cylinder. Said valve is provided with a stem 75 extendingin opposite directions and provided with-eollars 76 fixed thereto equaldistances from the ends of the valve case.

77 designates` a pair of coil springs interposed between the collars andthe ends of case 74 for the purpose of holding the valve 100 in acentral position so thatV it will normally cut off the fiow of fluid tothe cylinder.

78 79 designate a pair of bell-crank levers fulcrumed to' baling-cases 1and 2, respectively, and pivotallysecured at their oppo- 105 site endsto the terminals of stem 75 and the lower ends of push-bars 80 81,respectively, extending through eyes 82 on the balingcases. .Saidpush-bars are provided at their upper ends with foot-plates 83 84,respec- 110 tively, so thatzan attendant standing-on each baling-casemay alternately operate: the valve. The density of the bales willberegulated by tension devices on the deliveryends of the' balingeeases.Each l tension device 115 consists of a toggle comprising a pair ofztensien-bars 85, extending acrossfthe top and bottom of the case, and amember 86 pivotally secured to the adjacent ends of the bars by a rod87. l are pivotally-secured to a rod 88 extending throughbrackets v89.Member 86 is provided at one side with an eye-f90 and at its oppositeside with a pairy of arms 91bearing in angle-plates 92 on the adjacentside-of the 125 baling-ease.

93 designates a hand-lever fulcrumed to a casting 94 secured to the sideofthe. balingcase and provided with a notchedsector-.95 for receiving adetent 96 carried bythe lever. 130`y The opposite ends ofvbars85 120 97designates a connecting-rod pivotally secured at one end to thehand-lever and eX- tending through eye 90 at its opposite threaded endwhich is provided with a tension-nut 98.

Arms 91 are set at an angle to tension-bars S5 so that when theconnecting rod is drawn in the direction indicated by arrow (l, thedelivery end of the baling-case will be con tracted by forcing itsopposite sides inwardly with arms 91 and the tension-bars.

In practice, when the parts are `in the position shown in Fig. 6, theattendant standing upon baling-case l pushes the initially compressedcharge of material from hopper 15 down into said baling-case. Iile thendepresses push-bar S0 and holds the same in a depressed position untilhead-block 52 completes a forward stroke and -finally conipresses thecharge. As head-block 52 moves forward the condenser will move in areverse direction and compress the charge of material previouslydeposited in hopper 16 by pitcher 27. As the condenser moves to the leftit will, through the instrumentality of the connecting parts, raisepitcher 26 so that another charge will be deposited in hopper 15. Whenhead-block 52 reaches the end of its forward stroke the attendant oncase l releases the push-bar S0 so that the motor will stop. Theattendant standing upon case 2 may then push the charge downwardly intosaid case and depress push-bar S1 so that head-block 53 will advance andcompress said charge. Thus it will be understood that the pitchersalternately deposit the charges in the hoppers, that the condenseralternately compresses said charges, and that they are finallycompressed by the plungers in the baling-cases; and as these parts areprimarily operated by the motor and have positive connections eitherwith each other or the piston-rod they will always operate in propertime, and each will perform its function without interference with theother. And by arranging them to work alternately, as above described, acharge will be compressed at each strokepf the piston-head.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters-Patent, is td 1. A baling-press provided with a balingcasehaving a pocket, a head-block arranged to travel in said case, a toggleconnected to said headeblock and adapted to move therewith in anextended position a portion of its stroke, means for operating thetoggle, and means carried by the toggle for engaging the pocket, wherebysaid toggle is folded when completing a backward stroke.

2. A baling-press provided with a baling ease having a pocket, ahead-block arranged to travel in said case, a toggle connected to saidhead-block and adapted to Inove therewith in an extended position aportion of its stroke, a reeiproeatory piston, links pivotallyconnecting said piston to the toggle, and means carried by the togglefor engaging the pocket, whereby said toggle is folded when completing abackward stroke.

3. In abaling-press provided with a balingcase, a plunger arranged totravel therein, an apron having a down-turned forward end, andyieldingly supported links pivotally connected to the forward end ofsaid apron and the upper portion of the plunger, so that the forward endof the apron .may be depressed by and pass beneath the upper wall of thebaling-case.

Ll. In a double-acting baling-press provided with two hoppers and twobalingcases, a partition partly dividing said hoppers 'from the cases,plungers arranged to travel in said eases, and aprons yieldinglyconnected at their forward ends to the plungers so that said ends ,maybe depressed by and pass beneath the upper walls of the cases, the rearends of said aprons being arranged to slide upon the partition.

5. In a double-acting baling-press provided with two alined hoppers andtwo baling-cases communicating with said hoppers, plungers arranged totravel in said cases and controlled therefrom, and a reciprocatorycondenser in the hoppers arranged to cooperate with said plungers.

6. In adouble-acting baling-press provided with two alined hoppers andtwo baling-cases communicating with said hoppers, plungers arranged totravel in said cases and controlled therefrom, and a reciprocatorycondenser in the hoppers which is actuated by said plungers.

7. In a double-acting balingepress provided with two alined hoppers andtwo baling-cases communicating with said hoppers, a reeiproeatoryplunger in each case, vmeans controlled from the baling cases andcomlecting said plungers so they will move together in the samedirection, and a reciproeatery condenser in the hoppers arranged. tosimultaneously travel in reverse directions to said plun gers.

8. In a baling-press having a hopper and a baling-case communicatingwith each other, a reeiproeatory plunger in the baling-case, areeiproeatory condenser in the hopper, an oscillatory lever actuated bythe plunger, and a connecting-bar secured to said lever and thecondenser.

9. In a baling-press having a hopper and a billing-ease communicatingwith each other, a reeiproeatory plunger in the baling-ease providedwith antifriction rollers, oscillatory levers having forked endsengaging said rollers, connecting-bars secured to said levers, and areeiproeatory condenser in the hopper secured to the connecting-bars.

l0. In a double-acting baling-press provided with two hoppers,oscillatory pitchers for charging said hoppers with material, and areciprocatory condenser in the hoppers for compressing said. material.

11. In a double-acting laaling-press provided with two hoppers,oscillatory pitchers for alternately charging said hopper-s withmaterial, and a reciprocatory condenser in the hoppers for alternatelycompressing said material.

12. In a double-acting billing-press provided with two hoppers,oscillatory pitchers for charging said hoppers with material, areciprocatory condenser in the hoppers for compressing said material,and means connecting said pitchers to the condenser so the kformer willhe operated by the latter.

13. In a double-acting baling-press provided with two hoppers,oscillatory pitchers adapted to alternately swing upwardly and chargethe hoppers with material, a reciprocatory condenser in the hoppers forcompressing said material, and means for starting the pitchersdownwardly.

111. In a double-acting haling-press provided with two hoppcrs,oscillatory pitchers adapted to swing upwardly and charge the hopperswith material, a reciprocatory ccndenser in the hoppers for compressingthe material, cables connecting the pitchers to said condenser, andresilient means for starting the pitchers downwardly.

15. In a double-acting loaling-press provided with two 1Daling-cases,the combination of a reciprocatory motor carried by the press, plungersarranged in the cases and actuated by said motor, and means carried byeach case for controlling the motor.

16. In a double-acting baling-press provided with two alinedbaling-cases, the comlcination of a reciprocatory motor separating saidcases, reciprocatory plungers arranged in the cases and actuated by saidmotor, and means carried by each case for independently controlling themotor.

17. In a haling-press provided with a baling-case, a tension device forcontracting the discharge end of said case, a hand-lever ulcrumed uponthe case, a connecting-rod secured at its ends to said tension deviceand the hand-lever, a notched sector secured to the case, and a detentcarried by the lever and adapted to engage said sector.

18. A double-acting baling-press provided with two loaling-cases,head-blocks therein, a motor for actuating said head-hlocls, a valve forcontrolling the admission of motive luid to said motor, resilient meansfor normally holding the valve closed, a stem extending in oppositedirections from said valve, levers fulcrumed on the baling-cases andconnected to the ends of said stems, and push-bars for actuating saidlevers.

19. A baling-press provided with a balingcase, a head-block arranged totravel in said case, a toggle for actuating said head-block, providedwith an extension, means in the path of said extension for unfolding thetoggle, said means having a pocket, and rollers on the toggle adapted toenter said pocket and fold the toggle.

in testimony whereof l. a'lllX my signature, in the presence of twowitnesses.

WINFIELD S. LlVENGOOD.

TfVitnesses F. G. FISCHER, J. MOORE.

